Meghan Somerville is a Toronto-based jewelry designer who strives to create exquisite and elegantly handcrafted, eco-friendly and oftentimes, upcycled items. Her jewelry embraces femininity through floral designs, colourful cabochon flowers and lace filigree while it also reclaims the masculine through whimsical moustache and upcycled tie necklaces.

After completing her master’s in English and marrying her best friend and partner of ten years, Sean, Meghan chose to try and tackle this new field, jewelry design. Since she was young, she had always felt a need to create whether it be working with acrylics on canvas, upcycling battered and worn books or crafting diverse types of jewelry. But Meghan’s craft doesn’t stop at jewelry; she is also an avid painter, a photographer and a writer.

Many thanks again Meg – we really appreciate you reaching out to us to make your donation.

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And another thanks to minouette, captain of the etsy T.E.S.T. group who made a donation in August, for featuring The D.A.D. Project in the group’s interview series yesterday — you can read the interview here on the T.E.S.T. blog. It’s been really amazing being part of this group with all the support, encouragement and donations we’ve received from fellow members — don’t think we can say thank you enough to everyone!

Since Twine Birds’ last feature, she has participated in three art-related events in Toronto: Parkdale Bazaar, Paint-A-Thon and Big on Bloor. Aside from these events and her Etsy shop, Twine Birds’ products will be now sold at Atomic Cupcakes, in Waterdown, Ontario starting mid-August as well as in an online curated shop called ‘With Heart!’.

Connie plans on continuing Twine Birds after the summer months while she is back in school studying Urban Planning. Her future hopes for Twine Birds is to continue to branch outside of events and her online Etsy shop into local cupcake shops and bakeries.

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